So
does this also mean that some in congress
have
future plans for the draft into a new
war?
Supreme
Court declines to hear case questioning whether women must also register for
the draft
USA TODAY
Supreme
Court declines case about whether women must register for draft (usatoday.com)
"Requiring
only men to register for the draft reflects the outdated and sexist notion that
women are less fit to serve in the military and that men are less able to
stay home as caregivers in the event of an armed conflict," said Ria
Tabacco Mar, director of the Women’s Rights Project at the American Civil
Liberties Union. "Such stereotypes demean both men and women."
The modern registration system was adopted during World War I, according to court documents. The draft inducted nearly 3 million men into the military for World War I, more than 10 million for World War II, 1.5 million for the Korean War and nearly 2 million for Vietnam, according to the nonpartisan Congressional Research Service.
The Supreme
Court as composed October 27, 2020 to present.
Front row,
left to right: Associate Justice Samuel A. Alito, Jr., Associate Justice
Clarence Thomas, Chief Justice John G. Roberts, Jr., Associate Justice Stephen
G. Breyer, and Associate Justice Sonia Sotomayor.
Back row,
left to right: Associate Justice Brett M. Kavanaugh, Associate Justice Elena
Kagan, Associate Justice Neil M. Gorsuch, and Associate Justice Amy Coney
Barrett.
Credit: Fred
Schilling, Collection of the Supreme Court of the United States
Nine
Justices make up the current Supreme Court: one Chief Justice and eight
Associate Justices. The Honorable John G. Roberts, Jr., is the 17th Chief Justice
of the United States, and there have been 103 Associate Justices in the Court’s
history.
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